Reblogged this on gingerblokeblog and commented:
I have always been a BBCphile and believed them to be neutral towards the current government, yet recent history shows the current organisation to favour the right wing, showing it is an organisation of government yes wo/men and goons.

blah blah blah. a couple of thousand of lazy cunts who won’t work, turn out to complain that their easy lives of doing fuck all and getting money for it are under threat, and all of sudden there’s a massive conspiracy. fuck off. do some work. get paid for it. or continue as you are and die. forced sterilization is the way ahead.

I would have been there but had to be somewhere else. So pleased it was a success. What concerns me, and I assume many thousands more, is we are paying a BBC licence fee to be fed bullshit and facile news items, while all the civilian and child deaths in Eastern Ukraine and big demonstrations like this go unreported. The answer, though the general public seems to have forgotten this is based in the slogan, united we stand. We do not have to take this. But one person cannot do it alone.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZBM-pkJPio

I’m looking on the BBC website now and can’t find a mention of this anywhere. I’m sorry that Nursey, from Blackadder has apparently died, but I’m not sure that’s more of a top story than 50,000 people demonstrating in London. Weird behaviour from those communists at the Beeb.

I viewed this with interest and was in no way surprised by the news blackout by the UK media and the BBC at the protests and empathise completely with the frustration this brings. Scotland’s forthcoming referendum is a sensitive issue and the last thing I want to do its trigger a barrage of insults, this news blackout has become a common theme in Scotland with positive grassroots movements protesting at the media bias being ignored in favour of trivial tit tat. We are not that different, we want the same things, a govt of the people, for the people, rights and opportunities, a health and education service that is not only there for those that can afford it. The only difference is this referendum give scottish people the chance to try and make things better. The system is so broken only a complete change will force their hand and make them sit up and take notice. We don’t dislike the people it’s the system we don’t like or want.

http://www.childrenscreamingtobeheard.com NO ONE IS AWARE OF THE SILENT WITNESSES THE BRITISH CHILDREN WE HAVE ORGANISED AN M25 MOTOR WAY BLOCKADE FOR THE 24TH JULY THEN ON THE 25TH JULY AT THE RESORCE FOR LONDON CENTRE HOLLOWAY ROAD A CONFERENCE WITH MANY GUEST SPEAKERS FROM THE SYSYTEM WHO ALSO WANT A STOP PUT TO THE CHILD ABUSE OF THE CARE SYSTEM THE CONFERENCE IS FREE WITH OVER 400 SEATS TAKEN SO DO YOU THINK THE BBC WILL REPORT ON THIS DAY I DONT THINK SO BECAUSE THE BRITISH KIDS ARE A MULTIBILLION POUND INDUSTRY AND FOR THEM UP THERE KNOWN AS THE PAEDOPHILES. CLICK ONTO THE WEB AND READ OF THE CHILD ABUSE.
MAGGIE TUTTLE

I work two jobs and my partner works full time and at the end of the week after feeding us and my son I’m left with £10 how is that fair?! We get no help and it’s about time the government taxed me less and big earners more

Reblogged this on Garry Abbott. Writer & Musician and commented:
Why aren’t the BBC covering this? That’s the only question you need to ask. Possible answers can take you down a dark path, but unfortunately, one of them must be true.

I wish the BBC had covered more about a Labour Government wasting billions by illegal war in Iraq only to make risk worse today and then causing Britain’s economic crisis through appalling economic management.

Utterly disgusting. It got me so furious I went and set up a petition with 38 Degrees

Perhaps you could post & promote this petition demanding a change from the BBC’s the lack of coverage yesterday? The aim is to raise interest to then go on to an action, whether that is a one-off something that captures public imagination (& awakening) or a more sustained campaign of non-licence payment. Thanks ; )

The BBC is biased, and there was a closed-court trial of Tony blair for (some) of his war crimes committed. I do agree though, the illegal war caused by labour was far worse than anything the tories have done. But it still doesn’t make what the tories do right…

Please could you post & promote this petition demanding a change from the BBC’s the lack of coverage yesterday? The aim is to raise interest to then go on to an action, whether that is a one-off something that captures public imagination (& awakening) or a more sustained campaign of non-licence payment. Thanks ; )

Absolute rubbish El D Cook. I have NOT ‘… lived in a cabin of (sic) and are self sufficient…’. But I can tell you I have NEVER bought a TV licence, nor will I ever buy one.
Secondly, since when was a T.V. licence regarded as ‘tax’, although I guess it is. I have worked all my life, including 18 yrs for H.M.Forces and paid my tax. The T.V. licence is a different matter to me, countless thousands of people with a criminal record because of it and what benefit did they get ? The BBC is an absolute disgrace, it is biased beyond belief, it is a cash cow for the rich. The people should ALL stop paying this ubiquitous thief, the wonderful BBC.

50,000 demonstrate, in the centre of London, and they decide this isn’t news-worthy ? BS,

Given, the mention of the BBC finding a Scotland supporter celebrating England’s world cup demise, it’s interesting how little mention is made by them of the anti poverty demonstrations by the Brazilian people. So far, I’ve seen one cursory and ludicrous mention, where Gary Lineker said there had been a demonstration before the game and asked a Brazilian football what he thought about it. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the footballer said that people have the right to protest, but they shouldn’t do it during the game, or during the world cup, but beforehand. In other words, don’t protest at the time of maximum publicity, your poverty is less important than affluent people’s enjoyment of a football competition. I guess yesterday’s lack of coverage shows a similar view from the BBC.

It’s not labour or conservatives…..do a bit of research yourself about why these wars happened!
It is neither here nor there who’s in power because the real power in the background NEVER changes.
I spent 10 years in the armed forces and now that I’ve researched I would never have joined in the first place knowing the real reasons.

It’s simply because the BBC don’t want to report on this as it’s against their interests. I wish with all my heart I could have gone there and been part of it, but my current situation doesn’t allow for it.

Well done indeed to those who took part and made the effort to do something, besides sitting at home, whining about the state of the UK. And if you haven’t already, sign and share my petition to Get The Tories Out.

Riss, it must be hard being such an intellectual! If your planned programme of sterilisation is implemented I hope it is dependent upon IQ testing. At least then the world may be saved from your offspring, into whom you would doubtless instill your values!

If the anti-austerity movement is to succeed, it needs serious spokespeople who are able to clearly and convincingly argue for the “alternative” to austerity. Celebrity endorsements are great, but when the figurehead for your movement is Russell Brand – and you kick Owen Jones off the stage before he had finished speaking – you can’t complain when your 50,000 person march does not attract attention in the media or capture the public imagination:

Actually Deane, Britain held full sovereignty over Hong Kong island. It was the mainland portion of the colony which was held under a 99 year lease. Of course, it would have been untenable to keep hold of Hong Kong island so long as the Chinese wanted it back, and I quite agree with the sentiment that the only people who hold ‘moral’ sovereignty over a land are its inhabitants, but alas, no other options would have been viable with China looming large (as wealthy as Honk Kong may be, it’s no Taiwan).

On the website perhaps, and a day late(?), but certainly not on their ‘news’ channel. I don’t suppose that makes them any different to the likes of Russia today, who frequently whitewash anything vaguely critical of the Kremlin/Putin, but I rather expect better from the BBC.

As for BBC scrutiny of the government over Iraq, I’m afraid that went out of the window after Hutton and the unneccisary resignation of Greg Dyke. Their domestic news coverage has certainly gone down hill since then, and it was hardly award winning before that.

As for blaming Labour for the Iraq war per se, you clearly weren’t paying much attention. Certainly the executive branch of government (i.e. the Labour cabinet) at the time bore sizable responsility for the Iraq war. However the motion to support the war was carried with the full support of the Tories (of the main parties only the Liberal Democrats opposed if memory serves) and ¼ of the Labour party rebelled and voted against war. The Tories can coo all they want about being lied to, but the Iraq war was at it’s heart a neoconservative project (Bush et al leading the charge) and the Tories were going to vote for it either way. At least there was a sizable cohort on the Labour back bench (and even a few front benchers if memory serves) who had the courage to rebel (how many in the Tory party did the same?).

The credit crunch was the result of the averice and gross incompetence of a global financial fraternity. Yes they were enabled by an inadequente framework of regulation that Labour oversaw (in the UK at least), but it was a framework that was founded within the context of decades of financial deregulation throughout the developed world (which started in the Thatcher/Regan years) and in a climate were noted ‘Labour’ politicians like Oliver Letwin and George Osborne were screaming for even less regulation of the city (to paraphrase Osborne, to ‘unleash the power of the financial markets’). In any case, laying the blame squarely on the sholders of any government (including the US government, from whence the contagion spread) gives the financiers and spivs who actually wrecked the economy a get out of jail free card. So, if you think Labour got it all wrong, you can’t even begin to imagine how much worse it could have been had the Tories (a party funded almost entirely by those very financiaers and spives) been in power throughout that period.

As for the frankly proposterous notion that Labour overly burdened the country with debt, take a ganda at historic GDP/Debt ratios and you’ll see that they simply didn’t. It was the recession that rendered those debts overly onerous, by supressing GDP, decreasing govrnment revenue and increasing demand for welfare. One could make the rather asinine arguement that since the growth of the Labour years has proven to be illusory, they should never have borrowed a single penny to fund the rebuilding of our NHS after years of Tory neglect, or schools, or higher education. It is funny however that nobody (not least on the opposition benches) was making these arguments before 2008, heck nobody was making those arguments much before 2010 (when the Tories decided on their election strategy). It’s glaringly obvious now, that hindsight is the best and the rarest form of foresight. Curisior still that the Tories signed off on all of Labours spending committments prior to the general election. It’s almost as if they only decided to reframe the global financial crisis as one of the UK governments singular fecklessness in managing the national debt (rather than wreckless financial capitalism let leash on the world, and never held to account) in 2010. All in a cynical attempt the scare a public already culturally primed to fear debt, especially in a recession, one which by many measures failed (more people voted for non-austerity parties, even if one of those non-austerity parties swiftly changed it’s tune the moment somebody said ‘ministerial car Sir!’). All things considered, the blame Labour (new or otherwise) for everything; the Tories are our saviours and would have done things much better; Bankers? What bankers? Who are these bankers you speak of? line of thought is pure revisionism, and those that spout it are the rhetorical equivalent of a drunk teenage Richard Littlejohn in my opinion. New Labour got a lot wrong, but they were nowhere near as incompetent as the Tories are now and would have been then (evidenced by their opposition at the time) and what New Labour did get wrong, they got wrong precisely because they were triangulating around the Tories trying to be good little post-Thatcherites.

the press aren’t ignoring these events because they want to hide what is being said. These marches look exactly the same and carry the same message every time they happen. From a news point of view that is repetition, not news. Same banners, same slogans, sma Socialist Worker branding everywhere. Change the appearance and image and don’t end the main part of the rally at 5pm on Saturday and it might stand a chance of making a Sunday paper, which is pretty much finished by that time on a saturday. Maybe the people that organise these events should hire press officers that understand how the media works and then they would stand a much better chance of coverage. Yours, A press photographer who was there but couldn’t get his pictures in the papers but tried.

Ach. You don’t get it, or you’re a (bad) troll. I’m not in the habit of feeding trolls, but I think you could do with a morsel – and unlike the rest of your replies, without resorting to ad hominem assumptions – since you genuinely seem to believe this shit.

Austerity doesn’t just affect the unemployed, it affects everyone who relies on the state for something, and in these current times when we’re all tightening our belts things like private healthcare aren’t affordable for the majority.

I went to take my little girl to the doctors today to be told there is at least a 3 month wait for an *emergency* appointment because my local NHS Trust has had its funding slashed.. I own one business and work on a guaranteed contract for another, and STILL can’t afford the £x00 to take her to be seen privately.

Austerity means fires are left to burn because there are not enough firefighters.
Austerity means my daughter’s future teachers will probably barely know how to calculate a square root while teaching Higher Maths.
Austerity means my (employed) friend waits nine months for his DLA to kick in.
Austerity means crime has rocketed in my city because there are less police.
Austerity means the super-rich are getting richer while those of us lower down the ladder are being squeezed harder and harder.

How would forced sterilisation solve that? I’d love to see your logic here.

The BBC repeated day after day, week after week and month after month the mantra of, ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’, blah blah blah.

They showed AND gave air-time to Anjem Choudary when his ‘message’ was the same every single time.

This is a useless and baseless ‘defence’ of the BBC shirking its responsibility to share news which the viewers would wish to hear about.

This is the BBC refusing to air anything anti-austerity, as they refused to show how well the Green Party did at the recent elections. As they refused to discuss the facts of what was, or was not, known about paedophilia at the BBC.

It is indefensible to try and defend the BBC. It is simply a money-grabbing machine for the elite.

poor reporting by the bbc is as good as no reporting if you cant do the job properly then don’t do it at all

not a mention on the many thousands that have died going through welfare reform and not one mention of help from the bbc in putting together a remembrance day together for thousands that have died for the bereaved families

I’ve never bought a TV licence in my life and I’m nearly sixty.they took me to court once and I received a 25 pound fine no costs so it cost them more to take me to court than they won.I receive regular threats every few months saying their vans are in the area. I throw them in the bin.never been taken to court by them since

Here’s what I received from the BBC yesterday. My attitude to this response is unprintable.

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Dear Mr Carlyle

Thanks for contacting us about coverage of the People’s Assembly anti-austerity demonstration on 21 June.

We understand you feel there was insufficient coverage of this demonstration by BBC News.

We have received a wide range of feedback about our coverage of this story. In order to use our TV licence fee resources efficiently, this general response aims to answer the key concerns raised, but we apologise in advance if it doesn’t address your specific points in the manner you would prefer.

Your concerns were raised with senior editorial staff at BBC News who responded as follows:

“We covered this demonstration on the BBC News Channel with five reports throughout Saturday evening, on the BBC News website on Sunday, as well as on social media. We choose which stories we cover based on how newsworthy they are and what else is happening and we didn’t provide extensive coverage because of a number of bigger national and international news stories that day, including the escalating crisis in Iraq, British citizens fighting in Syria and the death of Gerry Conlon.

We frequently report on the UK economy and what it means for the British public. We also reflect the concerns of people such as those demonstrating, and others who hold opposing views, across our daily news output on TV, radio as well as online, and we also explore them in more depth including in our political programming and current affairs investigations, debates on ‘Question Time’ and during interviews and analysis on programmes such as ‘PM’ and ‘Newsnight’. Inevitably, there may be disagreements over the level of prominence we give to stories, but we believe our coverage of this subject has been fair and impartial.”

We hope this goes some way to explaining our position, and thanks again for taking the time to contact us.

I do not know who Tom Pride is and care even less but if the BBC think like me then they are sick to death of having half wits organizing non events and bringing London to a halt without consideration for anyone else. In recent weeks we have had UNISON out on a jolly and the powers to be seem to think that justifies shutting Regent Street and Oxford Street whilst they sit in a fire service vehicle having a drink and a smoke. Saturdays march was a disgrace and I am trying to establish who authorised the closure of a massive part of London for what was a clear anti semitic march. Why are these supposed protests not held in Hyde Park or one of the other many large areas in town. Could it be that they only wish to disrupt as many peoples lives, and the causes they are marching for would bore them silly if they were not allowed to bring London to a standstil.